Sentences with phrase «century old question»

However, the century old question still stands, should you have something to protect your device?

Century old question regarding the nature of the transition to turbulence solved.»

But was reminded of century old questions about the historical Jesus.

Not exact matches

There's an old question that has been asked for centuries and that's continually asked today: «What's in a name?»

Avoidance of the emotional side of the centuries - old discussion about faith and religion is the better way to reduce the noise and to understand the other side of the question.

These specific bones were found near a 12th century monk cemetary, if said bones in questions are older and dated to around when the king lived, it's a good bet it's probably the king.

Often this tension was felt to have been so painful that one or another heretic sought to suppress either the Hebrew or the Hellenic element, as with the efforts of the second «century Marcion to get the Church to excise the Old Testament from the Christian Bible, or, from the opposite side, the sneering rhetorical question from the puritanical pen of the early «third «century Tertullian, «What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?»

He says that «even the scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries... were still caught in the mental fetters of thousand - year - old errors, because the way back would inevitably have called in question parts of the biblical story» (p. 50).

To take Mark's presentation of Jesus» teaching as normative, or final — as on the older «Marcan hypothesis» — is simply out of the question, and sets before the Christian religion, as we have seen, a problem which nineteen centuries have now demonstrated to be insoluble.

Actually that's a silly question to someone who bases his beliefs on centuries - old myths.

A fiscal watchdog group is questioning the state's century - old prevailing wage law for construction workers, saying it unnecessarily costs taxpayers billions of dollars a year in added expenses for big road, bridge and other projects.

History will remember him as the leader who presided over the end of a three century old union, the man who signed off on a weak question on the ballot paper, failed to focus on the campaign until it was far too late and then, when he finally realised the error of his ways, sprinted to Scotland and spluttered out a panicked - looking promise of everything he'd never wanted.

«Century - old question about 3 - D structure of mitotic chromosomes answered.»

Even as Apollo was coming to an end, those lunar rocks were catapulting lunar research into new territory, settling centuries - old questions about the moon's geology and history.

A months - long literature search that involved tracking down century - old scientific papers and translating others from Czech and French helped University of Michigan ecologist Meghan Duffy answer a question she'd wondered about for years.

Working under the guidance of molecular anthropologist Ripan Malhi, she hopes to answer questions about phylogeny, biogeography, and island dwarfism among long - tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in Southeast Asia by sequencing decades - and even century - old mitochondrial DNA collected from the dried skulls of monkeys in museum collections.

Dr. Jess» dissertation, «Dating in the 21st Century» used data from several online dating sites to answer the age - old question: «what do men and women want?»

If you've ever seen «The Room,» a 2003 feature that's been called one of the worst films of the 21st century, you probably had some burning questions about its leading man, such as: How old is that guy, really?

As these friends talk and commiserate about their lots in life, they begin to question the centuries - old traditions that keep them downtrodden.

I ask these questions because in the newest 20th Century - Fox release, Mr. Popper's Penguins, (based on a popular children's tome and directed by Mark Waters, «The Spiderwick Chronicles,» «Ghosts Of Girlfriends Past «-RRB- features the main character not only getting dumped on twice within the first 15 minutes, but he is also treated to a good old - fashioned soccer ball kick in the groin.

As someone who knows all of the maths questions asked in the survey, the results, no matter how you read them, demonstrate unequivocally that a significant number of 15 - year - old Australians do not have access to sufficient numeracy and mathematical skills to be able to cope equitably with life in the 21st Century and are, potentially, disempowered.

Stolz paints a vivid picture of an all - female community and a young woman's coming - of - age in nineteenth - century Libya, in a story that follows 11 - year - old Malika as she questions the restrictions that she encounters as she approaches marriageable age.

'' «We are going to win a Nobel Prize,» I breathed.As they stay up all night to read the 9th - century Codex, it spills answers to all the burning questions of the thinking Camino pilgrim, including: Is there any chance at all that a Middle Eastern Jew's bones are in a crypt in Santiago de Compostela, Spain?Why, in the cathedrals along the Camino, are there so many portraits of St. James riding his horse over people?Did the legend of James in Spain — and the nation of Spain, sort of — really begin with a scribal error in an old manuscript — the modern equivalent of a typo?We're spirited to early 800s northwestern Spain, where King Alfonso II is in a pickle.

The question he poses in the paper is whether the centuries - old tontines — «or at least the underlying DNA of a tontine» — can help.

Liberated and charged by the influence of Renaissance and Baroque masters, and struggling to address age - old questions that still challenged the frontier of 20th century painting, Posen crystalized a vision and style that were astonishingly modern and fresh.

Liberated and charged by the influence of Renaissance and Baroque masters, and struggling to address age - old questions that still challenged the frontier of 20th century painting, Posen crystallized a vision and style that were astonishingly modern and fresh.

No — it is just part and parcel of the same old question of whether the pattern of the 20th and 21st century can be ascribed to natural variability without the effect of anthropogenic greenhouse gases.